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21) Closer
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt and anger.
22) Tangerine
Author
Formats
Description
"A stunning debut novel--a chilling and unexpected portrait of a female friendship set in 1950's Morocco. This is Patricia Highsmith for the 21st century" --
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it is better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. He's hired to go to Italy to bring back the playboy son of a millionaire and soon is plunged into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
489 pages : illustrations, maps on endpapers ; 22 cm
Description
"On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love."
26) Seven lies
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Jane and Marnie have been inseparable since they were eleven. Growing up, they shared everything, they knew the other's deepest secrets, and they wouldn't have had it any other way. Jane was always happiest when it was just the two of them; in fact, she remembers those days as the best time of her life. And even when Jane married the man of her dreams, somehow, Jonathan only added to Jane's life, without subtracting from the perfect equation of her...
27) The lion's den
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
353 pages
Description
"Belle likes to think herself immune to the dizzying effects of fabulous wealth. But when her best friend, Summer, invites her on a glamorous girls' getaway to the Mediterranean aboard her billionaire boyfriend's yacht, the only sensible answer is yes. Belle hopes the trip will be a much-needed break from her stalled acting career and uniquely humiliating waitressing job, but once aboard the luxurious Lion's Den, it becomes clear that all is not as...
Author
Series
Eternity Springs novels volume 8
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
When Flynn Brogan, the man she fell in love with when she was staying in the Caribbean, shows up in Eternity Springs, Gabriella Romano, who believes that he betrayed her, is reluctant to give him the second chance he asks for.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Anita Hughes's Christmas at the Lake is a heartwarming holiday romance set in a charming Christmas village on the shores Lake Tahoe. On Christmas Eve, just hours before their wedding, Rebecca Huntley is left at the altar by Ben Cole, her college sweetheart and fellow co-founder of the hugely successful dating app, Dealbreakers. He's fallen in love with the app's head of legal, and they are going to leave for three weeks in St. Bart's. Rebecca is...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the company and they will be successful again. However, a tough...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
336 pages
Description
"¿Quieres descubrir las las señales de la mentira? No te dejes engañar. ¡Vive con ventaja! Cuando las personas mienten o no confían en lo que cuentan, se comunican de manera diferente y tanto su lenguaje como su cuerpo pueden delatarlas. Lo mejor de todo es que no son conscientes, no lo pueden evitar. Sin la preparación adecuada, nuestra capacidad de detectar la falta de honestidad es puro azar. Conocer los indicadores concretos de engaño y...
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
309 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Mark Kurlansky's bestselling works of nonfiction view the history of the world through unexpected lenses, including cod, salt, and paper. In this new book for young readers his lens is the art of the big lie. Big lies are told by governments, politicians, and corporations to avoid responsibility, cast blame on the innocent, win elections, disguise intent, create chaos, and gain power and wealth. Big lies are as old as civilization. They corrupt public...
Formats
Description
Uncle Charlie is a seemingly charming man visiting his relatives in their small and peaceful hometown. But when his namesake niece, "Young Charlie" suspects that he may in fact be the psychopathic Merry Widow killer, Uncle Charlie must plot the death of his favorite relation in order to remain one step ahead of the law in this murderous game of cat-and-mouse.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Formats
Description
"The story of D-Day has been told from many points of view, but never before from the perspectives of the key individuals in the Double Cross system. These include its director (a brilliant, urbane intelligence officer), a colorful assortment of MI5 handlers (as well as their counterparts in Nazi intelligence), and the five spies who formed Double Cross's nucleus: a dashing Serbian playboy, a Polish fighter pilot, a bisexual Peruvian party girl, a...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
x, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Medical expert Paul A. Offit, M.D., offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how even though some popular therapies are remarkably helpful due to the placebo response, many of them are ineffective, expensive, and even deadly.
Author
Series
Eric Steele novels volume 3
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
490 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Special operative Eric Steele hunts a foreign assassin targeting top-tier US military personnel in the third electrifying military thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of All Out War"--
Author
Description
"Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives at the idyllic getaway, she's pleased to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells -- and he's eager to introduce her to his easygoing way of life. But there are things Grace discovers that she's not too pleased about: A lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When an anonymous benefactor offers to put Samantha Moore through school, with the stipulation that she write frequent letters to him on her progress, Sam finds safety in the letters as her program and her peers force her to confront her past.
Author
Appears on list
Description
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The locals in the Italian village where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly--for he appears to be a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. But as inconspicuous as Farfalla tries to make himself, his real profession is deadly. Farfalla has resolved to make his next job his last--all the while sensing a treacherous circle closing in on him.
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